Timor militia kill six priests SIX CATHOLIC clergy were killed

this week by proIndonesian militia while delivering aid to an outlying region of East Timor.
The attack was confirmed by the apostolic nuncio in Jakarta, Archbishop Fratini Renzo, who received the report from Bishop Basilio do Nascimento, apostolic administrator of Baukau.
Among the victims were two members of the Canossian Daughters of Charity, Sr Erminia Cazzaniga, 69, an Italian, and Sr Celeste de Carvalho Pinto, 48, an East Timorese. Also killed were two seminarians, two men who were about to be ordained deacons and nine lay persons. The church workers were driving from Baukau to Los Palos to deliver aid to refugees hiding in the mountains when the attack took place.